Author: HCN Staff

An epidemic of opioid use and the associated overdose deaths has been slowly building across the nation and Massachusetts for

E-prescribing is one small way that physicians can help improve patient care and respond to the opioid crisis — for

Hundreds of nursing students recently graduated from the area’s colleges with their associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees. American International College,

More than 40 million Americans have missing teeth, and studies show the main reason is the cost: they simply can’t

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently issued recommendations that provide a framework for a bold and transformative Alzheimer’s disease

Cuevas-Rivera Joins Wilbraham Medical Center WILBRAHAM — Baystate Wing Hospital announced that Dr. Dennies Cuevas-Rivera, a board-certified internal-medicine physician, has joined the medical

BEDFORD — Anika Therapeutics Inc. a leader in products for tissue protection, healing, and repair based on hyaluronic-acid technology, announced an

WARE — Did you know that close to 60 million Americans have high blood pressure, but only about half of them

SPRINGFIELD — Of the nearly 1,300 students who graduated from American International College (AIC) this May, seven were in the first

SPRINGFIELD — Mercy Medical Center announced it is transitioning its blood-donor program to the American Red Cross, effective July 6. “This

BOSTON — Clear in his aim to reframe substance abuse as a public-health crisis that can’t be solved by law enforcement

PITTSFIELD — HospiceCare in the Berkshires has been recognized as a Hospice Honors Elite recipient based on survey results from October

EAST LONGMEADOW — East Longmeadow Skilled Nursing Center passed a recent state Department of Public Health (DPH) survey with no deficiencies,

SPRINGFIELD — U.S. News & World Report has rated Baystate Medical Center as part of an elite group of 34 “high-performing” hospitals in

AGAWAM — The seventh annual Tom Cosenzi Driving for the Cure Charity Golf Tournament will tee off on Monday, Aug. 17

NORTHAMPTON — For the fifth consecutive year, Cooley Dickinson Hospital has received the Get with the Guidelines – Heart Failure Gold-Plus

WARE — Baystate Mary Lane Hospital has received the American Heart Assoc./American Stroke Assoc. Get with the Guidelines Stroke Silver Plus

WESTFIELD — The Massachusetts Public Health Council unanimously approved Baystate Health’s acquisition of Noble Hospital in Westfield last month. “That’s a

SPRINGFIELD — Other than your personal safety, there are health safety issues to worry about when using social-media apps to hook

NORTH ADAMS — Dr. Paul Donovan, a long-time practicing physician in North Adams, has written and published the first of a

NORTHAMPTON — “My name is Matthew, and I am here to remember my brother.” This is a familiar sentence spoken at

CHICAGO — Addressing the re-emergence of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S. requires states to move toward barring non-medical exemptions to immunization

SOUTH HADLEY — People with dementia and their caregivers are often isolated and cut off from their community. A group of